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Slavery and the founders : race and liberty in the age of Jefferson

Title
Slavery and the founders : race and liberty in the age of Jefferson / Paul Finkelman.
Author
Finkelman, Paul, 1949-
Publication
Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©1996.

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TextUse in library KF4545.S5 F565 1995Off-site

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Description
xi, 227 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
  • Geschichte 1750-1800
  • Slavery > Law and legislation > History. > United States
  • Slavery > United States > History
  • 15.85 history of America
  • Slavery
  • Slavery > Law and legislation
  • Recht
  • Sklaverei
  • Slavernij
  • Slavery > Law and legislation > United States
  • Slavery > United States
  • United States
  • USA
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Making a covenant with death : slavery and the Constitutional Convention -- Slavery and the Northwest Ordinance : a study in ambiguity -- Evading the Ordinance : the persistence of bondage in Indiana and Illinois -- Implementing the proslavery Constitution : the adoption of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 -- Thomas Jefferson and slavery I : "Treason against the hopes of the world" -- Thomass Jefferson and slavery II : Historians and myths.
ISBN
  • 1563245906
  • 9781563245909
  • 1563245914
  • 9781563245916
LCCN
95022359
OCLC
  • ocm32666045
  • 32666045
  • SCSB-2072257
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library